In Prostate Cancer Treatment Decisions, Age Plays Too Big A RoleElizabeth Fernandez
It is generally accepted that men with low and intermediate risk for prostate cancer should be treated with curative intent only if their life expectancy exceeds 10 years [1]. The average life expectancy of North American males is less than 10 years after age 75 [2], yet recent reports from...
View LargeDownload Primary Care Physician Visit Status According to Patient Age and Comorbidity Indexa Table 5. View LargeDownload Primary Treatment for Medicare Beneficiaries Diagnosed as Having Clinically Localized Prostate Cancer, According to Primary Care Physician Visit, Patient Age, and Patient Como...
Furthermore, controlling for age, comorbidity, and risk, older men with high-risk tumors receiving local therapy had a 46% reduction in mortality compared with those treated conservatively.Older patients are more likely to have high-risk prostate cancer at diagnosis and less likely to receive ...
Since the risk of developing thyroid cancer after external irradiation decreases with increasing age at exposure, with little risk demonstrated after age 20 years, data from this study of adults are insufficient to allow relevant comparisons between 131I and external radiation. To date, almost all ...
What are the risk factors for prostate cancer? Certain risk factors may predispose a person to prostate cancer. These include the following: Age: Sixty percent of cases of prostate cancer arise in men over 65 years of age. The disease is rare in men under 40. ...
What are the risk factors for prostate cancer? Certain risk factors may predispose a person to prostate cancer. These include the following: Age: Sixty percent of cases of prostate cancer arise in men over 65 years of age. The disease is rare in men under 40. ...
prostate cancer," because the tumor is often relatively slow growing.[2]Even so, prostate cancer can cause significant suffering because of such symptoms as urinary retention and bone pain. The risk of prostate cancer increases rapidly after age 50, and the tumor is especially prevalent in ...
EUPROMS gathered data from 2,943 European men from 25 countries. The respondents had an average age of 70 (all were over 45), and on average had been diagnosed withprostate cancerat the age of 64, meaning that they were reporting on quality of life 6 years after treatment. ...
What are the risk factors for prostate cancer? Certain risk factors may predispose a person to prostate cancer. These include the following: Age: Sixty percent of cases of prostate cancer arise in men over 65 years of age. The disease is rare in men under 40. ...